Being an Engineer when I first read the statement, “You are not what you eat but what you eat eats”, in Dan Barber’s book “The Third Plate”. The first thought that came to my mind was something I learned in college, the Conservation of Energy. I want to start this discussion off with a crash course in physics. The Conservation of Energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it is merely transferred from one form to another. Applying this concept to the food you eat you it can then be said that your body is not made from what you eat but from what you eat eats. Expanding this out on a grander scale it can be said that everything that you have eaten, everything that you have eaten has eaten, and everything that you have eaten has eaten has eaten has eaten, and so on makes you who you are.
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